The Missouri legislator examines to “test” suicide hotline

Kansas City, Mon. – A legislator of Missouri is examined for “testing” the state's suicide hotline.

According to an incident report by Jefferson City's police department, the state MP Tricia Byrnes (63rd district, Wentzville) of the 988 -Krises hotline wrote an SMS and claims that she has a gun in her head.

Byrnes did not answer the criminal investigation on an inquiry about KSHB 41 News.

The original news, which was set up on February 20, was transferred to the St. Louis police.

The St. Louis police on the phone. A total of three agencies, including the Capitol police in Jefferson City, searched for the caller.

The text was first reported to St. Louis Dispatch at 11.12 a.m.

According to the report, it took 17 minutes for the law enforcement to find out that the text was laid by Byrnes, admitted to the news to “test the durability of the 988 system”.

An operator announced Byrnes that their text message were devoted to many resources. At this point, Byrnes apologized.

The operator said that the Byrnes police would meet them on the ground of Missouri House, where Byrnes put the text from.

A police officer from Jefferson City documented that he spoke to Byrnes and said that she “prove how ineffective the 988 system is”.

According to the police officer, he said that he had “corrected by Byrnes about which notifications had taken place and what amount of resources that reacted to what only turned out to be a false report for their experiment.”

Byrnes did not answer a request for an interview with KSHB, but in a press release on Monday – before the exam – she said deeply about her test.

“I initiated this test to see how well the system reacts to individuals in crises,” said Byrnes in the publication. “What I found was nothing less than a catastrophic failure. The reactions I received were cold, robots and rails more from AI chatbots than to come from trained crisis consultants.”

“This is unacceptable,” she continued. “If someone would expect real help in the immediate vigor, they may not get them – and that could cost life.”

Byrnes recently introduced HB 1148. The legislation outlines additional provisions in the state laws of the state.

“Missourians earn a crisis reaction system that is reliable, compassionate and effective,” said Byrnes. “If someone stretches out in their darkest moment, they should be pushed with real help – not with generic, automated messages. HB 1148 is a necessary step to remedy this broken system and save life.”

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